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Rosemary MacMullen: Why is the customer always wrong?

9:11am Friday 28th September 2007

I AM beginning to wonder whether public transport companies care about their customers or only about their cash.

George Hayter: Rock's ageing effect

9:27am Friday 21st September 2007

ENJOYING contemporary rock music ended up making me feel old.

George Hayter: My new law of physics

2:42pm Friday 14th September 2007

MUCH of the universe is still to be explained, but I believe my latest discovery defines one more key phenomenon.

Andrew Napier: Winchester’s never had it so good

11:56am Thursday 13th September 2007

IT'S nearly 20 years since I came to Winchester. It's a landmark, for me anyway, although I'm not expecting a civic reception.

George Hayter: Half time is the best time

12:14pm Thursday 6th September 2007

A PLAY without an interval - can you think of any thing worse?

Khalid Aziz: Be amazed at this Hampshire jewel

9:25am Thursday 6th September 2007

IN a world where everything seems to be driven by profit, it is always gratifying to find a jewel in the rough.

George Hayter: Out of the public gaze

8:42am Thursday 23rd August 2007

ONE of Winchester's landmarks has been backing into the bushes. Horse and Rider, in front of the Law Courts, seems of late to have become a victim of shyness.

Ronald Allison: A tale of two cities

4:41pm Wednesday 22nd August 2007

BACK in Winchester after a few days in Edinburgh, I have found myself thinking quite seriously about the two cities - I've really had little choice; both are such compelling places.

George Hayter: Air miles way off the mark

10:34am Thursday 16th August 2007

OUR local airport has just become a loyalty card blackspot.

Khalid Aziz: Still legal, decent, honest and fair?

2:56pm Wednesday 15th August 2007

SO BBC employees are to attend seminars on "Truth and Trust" following the recent own goals perpetrated by them and other broadcast media.

Evelyn Thurlby: Project will give city a new vision and identity

10:27am Friday 10th August 2007

I WENT back to Rio de Janeiro last year and was disappointed by the experience.

George Hayter: Low-cost hols high on laughs

10:24am Friday 10th August 2007

THE paper provides staff with generous holidays, but my problem has always been finding enough money to take the family away for all five weeks.

George Hayter: We’re not so bad

3:57pm Wednesday 1st August 2007

According to a friend of mine, we can't get anything right in this country.

Ronald Allison: Taking their leave in style

10:32am Thursday 26th July 2007

A WEEK past this very day did I take myself with Mrs Allison to the St Bede Church of England Primary School in Winchester, for the annual service held for those young students passing from the primary stage of their learning to be enrolled this coming September-tide at the secondary academies eagerly awaiting their arrival.

George Hayter: Bus pass takes on a whole new meaning

11:31am Friday 20th July 2007

I'M appealing to the bus authorities to put bus stops closer together.

Khalid Aziz: Not enough benevolence!

12:30pm Thursday 19th July 2007

BY some supreme irony on the day that Winchester saw the sad return of one of the latest of our soldiers to be killed in Iraq, and at the same time as the nation changed Prime Ministers in mid-term without the courtesy of asking the poor electorate for their views on the subject, I was among a privileged audience at Winchester's Great Hall to hear a concert by the Adjutant General's band.

Russell Cook: My school lunches were a time of fear!

4:13pm Thursday 12th July 2007

THEY say that the best way to get to know your children and gain a little understanding of what they are thinking about is to get the conversation going over the dinner table.

Ronald Allison: Cases for cheers... and concerns

9:39am Thursday 28th June 2007

TWO reasons for a small celebration - one on a national scale, the other essentially local.

George Hayter: Deprive yourself

9:38am Thursday 28th June 2007

I ADMIRE party people because I have little stamina at social events myself.

Judith Heneghan: Think big, think positive. We can change our world

10:07am Thursday 14th June 2007

HAVE you ever suffered from Third World fatigue?' I know I have.

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